Want to be effective in influencing state policies on our environment and climate change? Find out how in this Planet Philadelphia environmental radio that aired live 5/17/19 on 92.9fm and streamed live on gtownradio.com. Listen to show host Kay Wood’s interview with State Senator Art Haywood on being an effective citizen at the state level on our environment, climate change and other issues.

Also on this show:
• Liz Robinson: Our Harrisburg correspondent and consultant to the PA Solar Energy Industries Association, on what else is happening in Harrisburg.
• Linda Rosenwein:A compilation of regional state, and city environmental news and selected other topics.

This episode of Planet Philadelphia is about our energy future and what is happening here in Philly and our state. Emiliy Schapira, the Director of the Philadelphia Energy Authority talks with Planet Philadelphia host, Kay Wood, and assistant producer, Linda Rowenwein, how Philly’s doing with the ambitious Philadelphia Energy Campaign, a $1 billion, 10-year initiative to advance energy efficiency and clean energy across Philadelphia, while creating over 10,000 jobs. The Philadelphia Energy Authority is in charge of shepherding this effort and others to give Philadelphians a sustainable future in a just way. This and more on this Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show originally aired live at 92.9FM WGGT-LP and simultaneously streamed on www.gtownradio.com/.

Planet Philadelphia is an environmental radio show that provides analysis on the intersectionality of large global environmental issues and how that can impact people in their daily lives. It is produced and hosted by Kay Wood along with assistance from assistant producer/reporter Linda Rosenwein.

Listen to the podcast of the Planet Philadelphia, aired Friday April 5th, for a discussion of the major nuclear issues facing Pennsylvanians with Tim Judson, the Executive Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) along with recommendations from the Analysis of Pennsylvania Nuclear Plants and Available Policy Alternatives memo from Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, Andrew G. Place. In addition, on this show Planet Philadelphia host Kay Wood and assistant producer/reporter Linda Rosenwein discuss some of the important issues being raised about the proposed new liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be built at PGW’s Passyunk plant.

Planet Philadelphia is an environmental radio show that provides analysis on the intersectionality of large global environmental issues and how that can impact people in their daily lives. It is produced and hosted by Kay Wood along with assistance from assistant producer/reporter Linda Rosenwein. The show live streams 4:00-5:00 p.m. the first and third Friday of every month on gtownradio.com and is broadcast on Germantown Community Radio at 92.9FM WGGT-LP, available around NW Philadelphia.

Water is life. We each and every one of us are made up of 70% water. Going forward into a climate changed future will we have enough clean water to meet everyone’s needs? Listen to this Planet Philadelphia aired 3/15/19 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM + www.gtownradio.com to hear what our guests have to say this vital resource.

Carol Collier, Senior Advisor for Watershed Management and Policy at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. She served for more than 15 years as executive director of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) before joining the Academy.

Dr. Merián Soto and Dr. Fletcher Chmara-Huff talk about global water issues, and about OASIS, a celebration of World Water Day, a daylong educational symposium and dance presentation at Temple University.

Planet Philadelphia live radio show aired aired 3/1/9 on 92.9FM WGGT-LP Philadlephia and streamed on gtownradio.com: Getting a better focus on the Green New Deal and the many issues it raises, both scientific and societal, with ​Mark Alan Hughes, Ph.D., of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, and Dan Lashof, Director of World Resources Institute (WRI) U.S.

The podcast is available for last Friday’s live Planet Philadelphia show from 2/15/19 The Environment: National and International Perspectives. What are the perspectives of people with both international and national contacts regarding environmental issues? Liten to these guests to find out:

Vinod Thomas, is former senior vice president at the World Bank, one of whose responsibilities is financing to help with climate issues, and author of Climate Change and Natural Disaster (2018).He will talk about the present climate change crisis and solutions that we may be able to take to avert it.

Franco Montalto, Ph.D., is an associate professor in Drexel’s Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering. He has recently returned from the world climate change conference in Poland, COP24, and has contacts about environmental issues in other countries. He will discuss “integration” and systems issues in relationship to the environment, as well as some of his own work on urban environmental problems.

The podcast is up. In case you missed the live 2/1/19Planet Philadelphia, you can catch the latestPlanet Philadelphiaon podcast just in case you missed listening to the live broadcast show. This was a show about solutions for waste and trash that aired on Planet Philadelphia 2/1/19Guests on thisPlanet Philadelphiatalked about innovative ideas to fight our waste and trash problems:

• Faye Christoforo and Audrey Kriva are from The Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN), a national organization which supports and advises the student-led Zero-Waste movement on campuses around the country.

• Ron Whyte is Project Coordinator of the Trash Academy of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. He will talk about the Academy’s work.

Planet Philadelphia, live radio show 1/18/19, 92.9 FM and gtownradio.com, green jobs in Philadelphia. Guests discussed the availability, quality, and training needed for green jobs, particularly for those in the energy efficiency field:

Pat Stanton, Director of Policy for E4TheFuture, discussed a recent national report on the availability of energy efficiency jobs broken down by state.

Also, Walter Yakabosky, Director of Training and Ashley Bowman Jobs Development Coordinator from ECA (Energy Coordinating Agency) came in to talk about energy jobs here in Philadelphia and more.

​Listen to the podcast here for the Friday, January 4, 2019 Planet Philadelphia aired live on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streamed at gtownradio.com.

2018 had a number of important, even alarming, events and occurrences from extreme weather events made worse by the climate crisis, powerful institutional reports including from our own government, and of course political wrangling. these guests talk about some of these events and what lies ahead in 2019.

Christina Faulkner McDonough: California suffered from multiple big fires this summer. Christina Faulkner McDonough had a close call with the Woolsey Fire, and will tell us about her direct experiences. Even though CA is 3,000 miles away we are all connected. The smoke from the fires even reached here Philadelphia and contributed to days of poorer air quality.

Liz Robinson: Philadelphia Solar Energy Association (PSEA) Executive Director, a key advocate for solar energy in Pennsylvania, helping to develop the policy framework that has had many accomplishments. She will talk about environmental issues in the new year.

Karen Krivit: Philly Goat Project Director Karen Krivit and several volunteers talk about this unique community-based program. Don’t throw your Christmas tree in the trash. Recycle it by feeding it to the goats at the Philly Goat Project at Awbury Arboretum's Agricultural Village.

Kay Wood is the host of Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show on Gtown Radio. Please tune in to http://www.gtownradio.com/ 1st and 3rd Fridays each month at 4:00 to 5:00 pm for Planet Philadelphia and listen to a super show.